Tool Frontman Stuns Crowd With Pro-Police Message

Rock stars aren’t known for their respect for authority, so the lead singer and frontman for the rock group Tool, Maynard James Keenan, stunned his crowd with a speech about law enforcement on Sunday that carried a huge message for the snowflakes who probably think dissing cops is cool.

According to WZLX in Boston, the rock band closed out the city’s music festival known as Boston Calling, but not before Keenan stepped in front of the raucous crowd to share a lesson on the privilege of being able be “whining, entitled snowflake a**holes.”

Yes, he called it a privilege. And he also stated that we owe that privilege to a special group of men and women who protect our rights, namely freedom of speech. Keenan was talking about the men and women of law enforcement, and on this past Memorial Day weekend, his message truly hit home.

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As WZLX reported, Keenan’s speech was met with wild applause… until he really called out the snowflakes at which point, “the crowd delivered lukewarm applause, seemingly unsure if they were being insulted or praised.”

Keenan started out with this simple message: “As artists, we interpret and report, that’s our job. We are merchants of emotion.”

He then launched into his central message, saying, “We have the privilege to do that because of active and former law enforcement and military defending our right to do so.” This one especially carried weight coming from Keenan, as the frontman himself is an Army veteran.

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“Those of you who are law enforcement and military, your job is to defend our right to act like whiny, entitled snowflake a**holes,” Keenan said to a round of applause before adding, “myself being one,” The Washington Times also reported.

It was this statement though, that caused many in the crowd to be unsure if Keenan was making fun of them.

“Snowflakes, your job is to respect them [f-word] doing that for you.”

At that, according to Blue Lives Matter, “People who say that they were at the concert said that the crowd erupted in applause.”

Regardless of whether all Americans accept that we must respect law enforcement, the fact remains that they protect us. Keenan’s crowd might have understood that.

Keenan closed his speech by reminding the audience that unity is the way forward.

“Divided we fall,” he said, according to WZLX. “Don’t believe the hype dumb-dumbs. We’re all in this together.”

We are all in this together, so it’s time to start acting like it and stop with the whining and defeatist attitudes that snowflakes regularly exhibit. It is called the United States of America after all.

The funniest part of this though, is that it took a self-proclaimed snowflake to finally say what all of them needed to hear.

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